Latest Past Events

Type-In! Typewriter Extravangza

YRL Main Conference Room

OPEN HOUSE for analog writing, typewriter tinkering, and poetry-on-demand Presented by UCLA Library & Writing Programs Take a break from screens and explore analog writing. Drop by YRL to try typewriters from across the decades, from classic manuals to electric models. Writers will be on hand to compose original poems, typed on the spot and...

5th Annual Professional Writing Minor Capstone Seminar Colloquium

Event Overview Join us for the 5th Annual Professional Writing Minor Capstone Seminar Colloquium! "I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means." -Joan Didion About the Colloquium UCLA Writing Programs and the Department of English are thrilled to invite you to our fifth...

Creating Connections 2026

YRL Main Conference Room

Our theme for the 9th annual Creating Connections symposium on writing pedagogy is “Collaboration and Community.” This theme invites us to think about the ways writing helps us connect with our students, colleagues, and communities at large. In the face of dehumanizing technologies and increasingly divisive rhetoric, collaboration becomes an act of resistance and care....